The perks of being without wifi

4. Eyes - a window to the soul

And, apparently, he also loved him...

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Yamaguchi ran downstairs only to find Tsukki spread on one side of the couch, watching TV, angrily eating a bowl of soup.

Yamaguchi sat besides him and started to eat the other bowl that Tsukki had left for him.

He tried to scope closer to Tsukkishima but the other boy escaped and focused even more on the TV.

The television was playing an old, cheesy K-drama, Tsukki's guilty pleasure. But there were no subtitles. And it was in that moment that Yamaguchi understood that the blonde realy was avoiding him.

Was he embarrassed and nervous because he kinda confesed his love? Was he scared of being rejected??

Yamaguchi needed to make things clear, even if Tsukki wasn't in love with him and only was confused of his feelings because he felt pressured to find a partner when he never even had a crush and so he mistook his friendship for Yamaguchi with love, he knew that his confession was needed. But he would need to be very clear, show that he wasn't joking and it was okay if it wasn't reciprocal, even tho it hurt, because he knew Tsukki deserved better.

"He-hey, can we hmm talk a bit about the things you said upstair-"

Tsukkishima turned the TV volume up and ignores him.

Yamaguchi can't even think with this much noise and so he turn the TV off.

Determined to ignore his friend in order to avoid further embarrassement, Tsukki pullsis headphone in and blasts heavy meatal into his hears.

Yamaguchi looks at Kei and slowly drops his sight to his unfinished bowl of soup.
This was it?
Was Tsukki really going to act like a brat with him because he had huged him? Was he giving up in their friendship that easily?? Was he not worth more fighting, more attention, more affection than the one he was receiving now??

His eyes start to water and he slowly lowers his head.

This is it.
I've lost and without any opportunity to fight... It was like regionals all over again... They lost and he hadn't even been given a chance...

BAM!

In the silence of the night a big thunder was heard ripping the sky.

Yamaguchi sat almost on the other's lap, craving for some support and human contact. Kei knew just how terrified Yams was of thunders, he hesitating hold the smaller boy closer to his body pulling him to sit totally in his lap with the hands around the taller's neck and Tsukki holding onto Yamaguchi's waist pulling his face to his chest.

Yamaguchi was crying. He just noticed it.

Yamaguchi stood up and was about to leave the room while covering his eyes when he felt a tug in his wrist

"... don't go..."

"...Let go of m/"

"Please!... Come here, Tadashi..."

"... I'm sorry? So you just ignore me for one entire month, choosing your phone over my company. Never lunching with me. Just playing with girls that love you.... you, you're just an INSENSIVE BRAT!"

He looked deep in Kei's deep eyes and said

"Let go of me"

And with that said he left to his room where he wrapped himself in a blanket and started to cry a small lake because of his attitude. He really was weak... Wasn't his initial goal to speak and clear things up?? Why couldn't he? His head was all fussy and his body wasn't okay too, he was starting to sweat and his heart was physically hurting.

Meanwhile Tsukkishima was running up stairs to try to apologize for his behaviour and make things right again between the two when he heard, on step away from Yamaguchi's room, a sound... a .... a moan?!

He opened the door only to find the brunette sitting cross-legged on top of his bed, wrapped in a blanket and holding Tsukkishima's jacket.

"...Tsukki I'm-"

"I'm sorry! I-I was mean to you with no reason... I'm just, weak, pathetic, you know? I tried to ignore this fellings for so long, believing that giving up on you was the best thing I could do but I was wrong. I'm really sorry! I just thought you didn't care enough, that you only stood by me because you saw me as a friend who could protect you from the mean things people do and said but... But in the end I was the only one who broke you and I know this because I saw it in your eyes downstairs. You looked broken. Just like I felt when you ran away from me, rejected and hum and for that I'm sorry, Yama..."

Yamaguchi looked up to Tsukkishima's eyes and both of them saw it, felt it.

Love

That was the thing that made possible a look be enough to understand another person. To realise their sorrow, affection and desires.

Yamaguchi knew he was loved.
Tsukki too.

Tsukki knew he was forgiven.
Yamaguchi too.

Glued by the eyes, the two boys became closer. They laid down and fell asleep looking at each other to the rhytm to their breathing and heart beats.

Hey everyone!
Lol I feel like I'm writing to the void ahaha but it's okay¿ Not really but it's understandable, I know my writing is kinda (really) bad ahaha
Well I think I'm going to end the story here and maybe do a smut one shot if anyone's interested.
Well I think that's it!
Thanks for reading til the end, I really appreciate it and hope this fic counts as a valid contribution to the Haikyuu fandom ahah
Come chat with me in the comments!!
- M